Score Methodology
How Tastemaker Score Works
Tastemaker score measures a developer's ability to identify and engage with high-upside repositories early. It favors accurate discovery patterns that repeatedly precede real project growth.
Early Discovery Quality
How often you identify promising repositories before they become mainstream.
Trend Prediction Accuracy
Whether projects you engage with go on to earn broad adoption and sustained momentum.
Consistency
Repeated high-signal discoveries over time, not one lucky cycle.
Signals That Move Tastemaker Score
- Timing of your engagement relative to project growth windows.
- Follow-through quality: projects you back that continue growing.
- Breadth across ecosystems without random low-signal noise.
- Sustained participation in emerging repositories and categories.
How to Improve It
- Track emerging maintainers and contributor graphs, not just headline stars.
- Contribute early where you can add real technical value.
- Avoid trend-hopping across disconnected projects with no depth.
- Build a repeatable process for scouting and validating new projects.